Researchers from the University of Newcastle have identified a trivial cyber attack that exploits flaws in Visa’s card payment system. With the right set of software tools, the flaws can be exploited to “guess” a card number, its expiration date…

Madison Square Garden, the multi-purpose indoor arena that’s played host to countless major entertainment and sporting events over the years (the most recent of which being UFC 205), recently uncovered evidence that its payment processing system has been compromised for…

Verizon in July agreed to purchase Yahoo for approximately $4.83 billion in cash. The following month, a well-known hacker that goes by the handle Peace offered up the login credentials of 200 million Yahoo accounts on a dark web marketplace…

Data breach and hacking notification site LeakedSource has uncovered new information regarding the 2012 hack on Last.fm. Although the service issued a mandatory password change years ago, the scope of the hack is frightening to say the least.

The College Board, the not-for-profit testing company that’s responsible for putting together the SAT college entrance exam used worldwide, set about redesigning the exam in 2012 under the guidance of newly-appointed CEO David Coleman.

Fast food chain Wendy’s on Thursday revealed that 1,025 of its 5,144 franchise locations in the US were targeted by what the company describes as a sophisticated, criminal cyberattack that resulted in customers’ payment card information being compromised.

Acer recently learned that its US-based e-commerce site had been compromised and is preparing to inform customers that may be affected according to a template letter sent to the California Attorney General’s office.

A string of high-profile data breaches over the past several weeks has put some major technology companies on high alert. The breaches in question – affecting LinkedIn, Myspace, Tumblr and VK – took place years ago meaning the stolen data…

Time Inc., which recently acquired pioneering social network Myspace, has confirmed reports that the site was hacked. Like the Tumblr breach that we reported on yesterday, the compromised Myspace data dates back several years.

Security journalist Brian Krebs of KrebsOnSecurity has learned that Verizon Enterprise Solutions, a unit of the telecommunications company that provides nearly every Fortune 500 company with IT security and services, has fallen victim to a cyber attack.

VTech, makers of several popular educational toys for children, topped headlines last week after it was revealed that a hacker had infiltrated the company’s database and made away with personally-identifiable information belonging to nearly five million families.

Hilton Hotels has confirmed a security breach that experts first suspected as early as August. The attacks – some dating back more than a year – involved malware loaded on point-of-sale systems in some of Hilton’s restaurants and gift shops.
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Vodafone UK over the weekend revealed that nearly 2,000 customers have had their accounts accessed by an unauthorized party that may have led to the theft of sensitive information including the customer’s name, mobile number, bank sort code and the…